24mo. Unpaginated. 5 1/4" x 3.5". Full leather with decorative gilt stamped ruling to covers and gilt-stamped tooling to spine, with raised bands. Gilt lettering on red label of spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Inscription on front free endpaper, dated "August 22nd 1852." Inscription at rear free endpaper. A lovely pocket sized edition of the Christian Bible containing both the Old and New Testaments, originally printed for British and Foreign Bible Society (often known simply as the Bible Society). The society, which was founded in 1804 is a non-denominational Christian Bible society with charity status whose purpose is to make the Bible available throughout the world. This is essentially another edition of the King James version, with the front dedication page to King James and the praising of the royalty. Binding with light age wear, including edges, corners, and hinges of spine lightly rubbed. Some light scratches to the front and back covers. Interior with some light foxing and water stains to free endpapers and title page. Minor sporadic foxing throughout. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. This is an earlier variant of the more well known larger 1853 edition, published by Eyre and Spotiswoode, for the Bible Society (Darlow and Moule's "Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of the Holy Scripture", catalog #1185.). Bookseller Inventory # 40740

Since 1985 we offer individual books for sale from our inventory of 150,000 rare, out-of-print and antiquarian volumes on many topics, with an emphasis on Judaica, Hebraica, Bibles and rabbinics, the fine and decorative arts, architecture, photography, textile and wallpaper sample books, Bauhaus and the avant garde, expressionist dance, Olympic Games and sport, the ancient near-east and archeology, erotica, illustrated and foreign-language books, especially German, Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew, as well as books from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, plus Russian constructivist materials.
We create book collections, both large and small, for individuals, decorators, archives and libraries¿currently available: a 10,000-volume research collection on Judaica in the German language.
In addition, we maintain a beguiling selection of original works of art and photography.
Eric Chaim Kline provides appraisal services for estate, insurance and tax purposes, often helping to match book donors with libraries and museums.
We purchase books of merit and entire collections; we also take books on consignment with favorable terms.
We are a rental source for movie and tv production, occasionally providing the prop on which the plot turns.
Traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe, Eric Chaim Kline has been buying and selling old and rare books since the 1980¿s, when in graduate school at Brandeis University. Proprietor of bookshops in several Los Angeles locations since 1985, he hosts visitors by appointment in our lively bookstore and ships books to collectors, libraries and museums worldwide.
Kline occasionally lectures on topics in book collecting and Jewish studies. He sponsors the annual Bibliography Award granted by the Association of Jewish Libraries and serves on the national board of the Antiquarian Booksellers¿ Association of America.
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International:
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